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attacked before. >> and the ballplayer of a target of racially charge incident of the at&t park. good evening it is monday august 12, i am gasia mikaelian, this is bay area news at 7:00. a 10-year-old boy martinez is hospitalized tonight after being attacked by two pitbulls in antioch. continuing coverage tonight with jana, she's live, you spoke with the stepfather this evening, he told you what happened. >> reporter: he says the
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injuries to his son were terrible. hunter was playing in his friend's house when he was attacked by two pitbulls. hunter's mom says the dogs had torn into his cheeks. it is difficult to see hunter with such vie injuries. >> it is a heartbreak for him, i told him i love him and be strong. he was still in shock. >> hunter mother's says he was walking upstairs playing video games and when a pitbull knocked him down and another pitbull attacked. she was next door and she heard the screams. >> i knew that i had to be calm and tell him he's not going to die.
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>> she says hunter loves swimming and looking forward to start 4th grade. the dog owner puts a sign outside, please don't bother us. hunter's mom thinks that it does attack before once the dog is euthanize. >> knowing that you have these dogs and you don't do anything about it. >> reporter: antioch's police says hunter's friend did try to pull the pitbulls off and received bites on his arm but it looks like he's okay. hunter is expected to have another surgery on wednesday and friends and family are trying to raise money to help the family. ktvu channel 2 news. the ambassador nor's office
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says it is now waiting on confirmation of the victim's identity. the body was found on friday for the search of sandra coke. on the day she disappeared she was seen with randy alana with a long criminal history. coke and alana dated 20 years ago. alana behind bars tonight, he was arrested last week on a parole violation. officers found the bus about 11:00 last night on interstate 280. the passengers still strapped in the seat belt was dead. officers could not driver but did spot a man walking near by. a seasons teen tells us struggling of losing a two long time friends after they died in the car crash.
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lopez was the passenger of the car accident. 16-year-old hernandez, the passenger and the driver 19-year-old perez were killed. >> k they're gone, it sucks because it is like i grew up with them, it is not going to be the same. >> lopez says he and his friends were drinking before their car hit a tree on saturday night, the crash was a single car accident. friends of the teens were driving in another car and the driver in his car swerved to avoid hitting another vehicle. u.s. attorneys general holder appeared in san francisco to announce big changes and how prosecutors handle non violent drug crime. the government is softening its stand favoring rehab over prison. >> reporter: instead
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of jail. >> basically i got caught selling drugs and i got arrested and i got a second opportunity to be in a program called back on track and there was a lot of good people there to help me out, helping me steering right. >> reporter: holder says he hope to steer the federal justices back on track by changing the my juror drug cases. >> certain low levels and non violent drug offenders and gangs or cartels will no longer be charges of -- mandatory minimum sentences. >> reporter: those mandatory sentences often meant billion spent. the country's population has grown by 8% since 1980s. the nation's possession laws should be over hauled.
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>> for cocaine you are looking for 2 or 3 or 4 years. >> as a so called war on drug enters its fifth decade, we need to ask whether if it approaches come comprises have been truly affected. >> in san francisco david stevenson ktvu channel 2 news former secretary of sate hillary appeared at the bart negotiations this afternoon. she was awarded of the aba medal for her work of human trafficking and her efforts. she also criticized the u.s.'s supreme court to strip apart the voting rights act. >> it is a sign of discrimination of a thing of the past and we no longer
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need protection but as justice, that's like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. >> clinton says since the ruling there is been a rust to enact laws which she says make it harder for many americans to vote. governor brown signs a legislation -- the california laws first of its kind in the u.s.. and other school districts already followed similar guidelines, the law is scheduled to go in effect on january 1st. day one of the cooling off on the bart dispute. trains are rolling but so far there is no new talks schd governor brown ordered -- leading to another mad rush in october, to try to make a deal before the next deadline.
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a four alarm fire sent for four adults and two children into safety today. outside of the city limits. firefighters say it took some time to knock down the flames because they to bring in water from a fire hydrant about a mile away. the spoke men says the main home of the property was not damaged and there is no injuries. the man who died in the crash has been identified as the alameda resident. andrew whitney a pine nor was standing up o ski. investigators say they don't know what caused the collision but both riders have limiting experience operating personal water craft. a giants fan threw a banana
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on the field, upsetting the -- the team already should apologize and now fan the fan reported that it was all a misunderstanding. >> man , that's a fair ball. >> what happened later is some say something is quite ugly. >> racism is alive and doing well. >> i want to thank whatever -- through thatthrew that banana, a way to show your class. >> it hurts because we are not all equal. >> we have too many people in this nation who have not found in their hearts to embrace african americans. >> the appropriate actions of this individual in no way reflects the values of our organization.
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>> over the past two years hockey player zimmerman had a banana thrown to him while in the field. . he threw the banana out of disgust and not racism. this man visiting from chicago says it won't. >> the giants say they're sinvestigate and they'll not say the man came forward -- in san francisco rob roth, ktvu. prosecutors say teresa abused 6 children ages 5-7. parents of the alleged
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victims filed the lawsuit against her and the school district, he's due back in court later this month. asiana -- and does not prevent victims from suing the airlines. three chinese teenagers died as a result of the accident. . they received the larger payments but did not specify the amount. >> nobody can begin to grasp what we are going through. a family of a young girl stabbed to death speaking out for the first time why they say they feel abandoned. sending people coast to coast in just an hour, can it work? it is a warmer day around the bay area, i do expect the trend will continue for you on tuesday and i will have a look at the numbers and how long this warm
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up will last.
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this resort near disney world says they can hear windows breaking. part of the vi la in florida collapsed while the other part sinking. the build collapsed hours later and no one was hurt. police say the sink hole is about 50 feet wide. james dimaggio fired at least one shot at the fbi before they fired back and killing him. hannah's father talk is talking about the ordeal. >> i am very proud of her and i love her very much. she's surrounded by the love of her fd friends and community.
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>> fbi agent found dimaggio this weekend after a horse rider spotted them in the wilderness. hannah did not know her mother and brother was dead after the rescued. her father said he never saw any strange behavior from dimaggio. the county girl killed in her home early this year speaking out tonight about the ordeal. mike tells us the community rallied fowler's family has now turned against them. >> nobody can begin to grasp what we are going through. >> reporter: to describe just how quickly some in their community turned their backs on grieving the family. >> there is people that are being extremely harsh and judge mental to us. >> since his son's arrest,
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fowler told me their family had to hide to live out of fear. >> our kids are even, crystal they're scared to death to be home alone and even go anywhere by themselves. >> fowler says -- are now harassing and disrespecting and threaten the family in public. >> they're trying to find us. >> the a lot of the people were great kind of turned their back. oregon they were at burger king and simply trying to eat a meal and they said someone took out their camera and begin taking pictures of the children. >> there are day that is you don't want to get up. there are day that is you don't want to go on. but, we have to do it for other kids. >> and that's why this family is speaking out in a plea for understanding
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and compassion as this family continues to struggle with their daughter's death and son's arrest. >> we could not deal with the fact that she's gone. >> ktvu channel 2 news guilty of 11 murders and dozens of other crimes. he's one of the most fugitive after he fled in 1994. he was arrested in 2011 in san monica after 20 years of the run, bulger. the website reported over the weekend, apple plans to unveil its newest iphone devices on september 10th. to be called the iphone s. shas rose 2% today.
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nasdaq gained 9 today. the skype version 410 supports hd for the iphone 5 and the fourth generation of ipad. it allows users to pick a specific country code instead of manually entering it. researchers at duke unit looked at the record of 600, 000 children and found that boys born to mother -- the study appeared online today of the american association journal, doctors should not delay giving labor induced medication which can be life safing. saving. on
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the blog today, posts of the sketches of what he calls the hp . but, as maggie explains, it is all pretty theoretical at this point. >> i have a name for it, it is called the hyper loop. >> still confused? i met up with brian inside the old school new york city subway system to get the real hyper loop scoop. >> what are we thinking it might be like, it is supposed to not be like the infrastructure that we are used to. >> he says it is nothing like we have seen before so what would it look like? >> it looks something like a tube sort of like enclosed tube and we just blast air through that, kind of like, you know the old school mail system where they, sends the
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package up and it gets sucked up and we'll be launched of the rail gun, 600 miles per hour. >> is this something we want to ride on? >> i think so because in a controe environment. >> videos like this one on youtube are atempting to show what a hyper loop system will look like but in the real world there will be some challenges. >> all of the traffic jams and air delays and subway can change. >> i love it. it is something we need to move us forward. these old ways are not working, old transit is boring s leapfrog from that. the past couple of week in the bay area has been cooler than average, finally rosemary, i think things are
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heating up. >> anywhere from 4 to 8 degrees above yesterday's highs, hopefully you felt it if you have been longing for it. we'll continue to see this trend now that it is settling in. giving you a look at the coastline, we remain mostly cloudy today along the coast and you can see by getting a little closer, it is moving in. san francisco and the west ind and daily city mostly gray for you. outside of that, we have mostly sunny skies and still nice and warm in some areas. 79 walnut creek and 79 livermore. around the bay area temperatures holding in 60s as well. upper 60s to lows 70s for the north bay. the pressure that's building in from the southwest is going to
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help us out and bring us warmer temperatures for tomorrow. i think wednesday maybe one of the warmest day of the week. we'll remain 60s at the coast and 70s around the bay and a few far reaching areas of low 90s. as we get start tomorrow morning, in the 50s. and 55 san francisco and 57 in mountain view and upper 50s for antioch and 55 for fairfield and low 50s for the north bay. napa and santa rosa, 50s. to the east bay lows 70s in stos and al. . lows 80s for san jose. along the peninsula and mostly sunny in the afternoon 67 expected for san francisco. wednesday again is our
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warmest day, you can see remaining warm all the way through the weekend. gasia. >> rosemary thank you. sometimes it is not easy eating on a healthier budget. and now trending at ktvu.com images of a 3 day rocking roll party at the golden gate park and today's minor hang over.
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now trending at www.ktvu.com, images from this weekend outside of the music festival in san francisco. they say they started just as soon as the 3 day concert ended last night. 65, 000 people pack inside the park each day. the red hot chilly peppers and nine inch snails. go to www.ktvu.com to view slide shows o value festival and when you are there click on the tab. a low income family showing us how to
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